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The small West Australian town of Exmouth will be home to a space surveillance telescope, the result of a United States and Australian defence agreement. The telescope will track asteroids and space debris but the Australian Defence Minister insists it won't be used for spying, despite having ...

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Australia's leading scientific minds have gathered in Sydney this week to decide who gets access to the country's world-class telescopes and for how long. Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO, operates a number of world class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively ...

Australian scientists and engineers are playing a critical role in NASA's New Horizons Pluto mission. They operate the communications hub at Canberra's Deep Space Communication Complex that receives and deciphers the data from the space probe. Glen Nagle is the complex's education and ...

Tropical Stargazers will keep an eye on the sky this week in the lead up to Asteroid Day. It is an event that aims to raise awareness about steps that need to be taken to protect planet earth from asteroids. ...

James Barclay had been the chief astronomer at the Maidenwell Observatory for the past decade, but his job title changed after he put the observatory on the back of a truck (three trucks, to be precise) and moved it to the Kingaroy airport. He's now the chief astronomer of the Kingaroy Observatory. ...